Visible Learning for Literacy, Grades K-12: Implementing the Practices That Work Best to Accelerate Student Learning


Douglas B. Fisher - 2016
    These practices are "visible" because their purpose is clear, they are implemented at the right moment in a student's learning, and their effect is tangible.Through dozens of classroom scenarios, learn how to use the right approach at the right time for surface, deep, and transfer learning and which routines are most effective at each phase of learning.

About Teaching Mathematics 036068


Marilyn Burns - 1977
    Containing information necessary for teachers to teach math through problem solving, this resource is filled with engaging activities from every strand of mathematics.

Instructional Rounds in Education: A Network Approach to Improving Teaching and Learning


Elizabeth A. City - 2009
    But you will also see a high degree of variability among classrooms—much higher than in most other industrialized countries. Today we are asking schools to do something they have never done before—educate all students to high levels—yet we don’t know how to do that in every classroom for every child.Inspired by the medical-rounds model used by physicians, the authors have pioneered a new form of professional learning known as instructional rounds networks. Through this process, educators develop a shared practice of observing, discussing, and analyzing learning and teaching.